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Does anyone else get triggered seeing kids on iPads?

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Some of the most important statistics from the National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, and U.S. Census Bureau underscore the critical need to address illiteracy in the United States:

  • As of 2019, 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level

  • 50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth-grade level

  • 57% of students failed the California Standards Test in English

  • 1/3 of fourth-graders reach the proficient reading level

  • 25% of students in California school systems are able to perform basic reading skills

  • 85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading

  • 3 out of 5 people in American prisons can’t read

  • 3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read

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Just read a comment that when alcohol was invented there were 15 million humans total. We now have 3 times that many neighbors in America who can't read good lmfao

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Well yeah but how many of those 15 million would do well on the SAT?

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>alcohol

>invented

Pretty sure animals have been getting drunk off of fermented berries and stuff for eternity.

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:marseyakshually: aniMAls HavE BEEn gEtTing dRuNK Off of feERMenTed BErRies and stUFF for etERnity

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